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| Vought International | |
| Continuity: | The Boys |
| Aliases: | Vought American Consolidated |
| Category: | Business |
| Continent: | North America |
| Country: | United States of America |
| State: | New York |
| City: | New York City |
| Residents: | Stan Edgar; Madelyn Stillwell; Ashley Barrett |
| Points of interest: | Vought Tower |
| 1st appearance: | The Boys #3 |
Vought International is a fictional organization featured in The Boys multimedia franchise. It served as the primary antagonist backdrop for The Boys comic book series as well as The Boys television program on Amazon Prime.
Description[]
Vought International is an American pharmaceutical corporation and a multi-billion dollar company that has expanded its influence to include the proliferation, marketing and distribution of privatized enhanced super-beings known colloquially as "Supes". The company was founded by Frederick Vought, who as a Nazi scientist who worked as the chief physician at the Dachau concentration camp in the late 1930s and throughout the remainder of World War II. At the end of the war, Vought was one of several such brilliant minds that were brought over to the United States as part of an operation known as Project: Paper Clip. Frederick Vought was the creator of a chemical formula dubbed Compound V, which could grant super-powers to humans. The creation of Compound V served as the backbone of Vought International.
By the modern era, Vought had cornered the market on the creation of super-beings, though it was not publicly known that this process was engineered because of Compound V. The head of Vought International was Stan Edgar, who operated out of the Vought Tower in New York City, New York. Edgar had assigned Madelyn Stillwell to serve as hero management vice president, which included the creation of the first privately funded superhero team, The Seven.
Headquarters[]
- Vought Tower
- Vought Tower was the corporate headquarters of Vought International and was located in the heart of New York City, New York. Stan Edgar and the other board members operated out of the 82nd floor. Madelyn Stillwell's office was on the 99th floor, which included the headquarter accommodations of The Seven.
Staff[]
Administrators[]
- Frederick Vought - Founder
- Stan Edgar - President & CEO
- Madelyn Stillwell - Former Senior Vice President of Hero Management
- Ashley Barrett - Former director of Talent Relations; Hero Management VP
- Becca Butcher - Social Media coordinator
- Seth Reed - Public Relations
- Jonah Vogelbaum - Scientist
- Robert A. Singer - Board member
- Jill - Board member
The Seven[]
- A-Train
- Black Noir
- Blindspot - Impaired before officially joining.
- The Deep - Transferred following scandal.
- Homelander
- Jack from Jupiter
- Lamplighter - Retired
- Queen Maeve
- Starlight - Replaced Lamplighter
- Stormfront - Replacement for Translucent.
- Translucent [1] - Killed in action.
Other Supes[]
- Eagle the Archer
- Ezekiel
- Gecko
- Mesmer
- Popclaw
- Shockwave
Notes[]
- The Boys was created by writer Garth Ennis and artists Darick Robertson & Tony Aviña. They were introduced in the first issue of The Boys ongoing comic book series published by DC Comics under their WildStorm Productions imprint. Following issue #6, publication of the series transferred over to Dynamite Entertainment, who completed the run for a seventy-two issue count.
- In the comics, Vought started out as Vought American Consolidated and manufactured aircraft for the United States Air Force such as the V.A.C. F7U Grizzly fighter jet, which proved to be disastrously unreliable during World War II. During the Vietnam War, they manufactured weaponry for the United States Army. [2]
External Links[]
See also[]
Appearances[]
References[]
- ↑ Television continuity only.
- ↑ The Boys 19